Rice was fatally shot last November while playing in a public park with a toy gun.

A bystander placed a 911 call to report that a boy was playing with a gun but clarified later to the operator that it was “probably fake.” The description of the gun was never passed onto officers who fired upon Rice two seconds after their arrival onto the scene.

Prosecutor Tim McGinty said that the incident was a "perfect storm of human error" but reiterated that Loehmann acted in a "reasonable" manner because "the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police."